Hon’ble Bala Krishna Narayana, J.—Heard learned counsel for the petitioners, learned A.G.A. for the State and Sri T.A. Singh, learned counsel for the Union of India.

2. The validity of the detention of Veeri Singh has been challenged in this writ petition. He has been detained by the District Magistrate, Firozabad respondent No. 3 by an order dated 18.09.2015 made by him under Section 3(2) National Security Act, 1980 (herein after referred as to NSA). The State Government after receipt of the opinion of the advisory board has approved the detention as required under Section 12(1) of that Act.

3. The activities on the basis of which the impugned detention order has been passed by the respondent No. 3 District Magistrate, Firozabad are said to have been taken place on 06.08.2015 at about 18:30 hours in Kasba Mohalla Charbag, Police Station Linepar, District Firozabad, in which two persons namely Kuldeep and Onkar Nath Gupta were shot dead and one person Nityanand had received bullet injuries as a result of the indiscriminate firing made by the petitioner and his accomplices Pradeep, Sanjeev, Raju, Pappu alias Deepi, Mohan Singh, Karan Singh, Kali Lala, Vimal, Pappu alias Rajn